"Periodic #OOPS#ing is an unavoidable symptom of a lifetime spent fishing: Older fishermen have been around so much beauty for so long that even a single beer can tossed on the bank of a stream looks like pure ruination- and this from men who, in our younger, wilder days, carelessly disposed of some empty beer cans ourselves. Now we pick them up, possibly as some kind of penance."

pcray: It wasn't a letter addressing the need for deer control to avoid over browsing of the understory. It was a letter advocating cutting more timber because somehow an untimbered forest "destroys itself". The fact that trees, and forests, existed before industrial logging, and continue to do so (in lesser and lesser ammounts) proves that assumption wrong.

I have no problem with deer hunting, I am a deer hunter, and fully recognize that without managment our deer herd would damage our ecosystem and eventually starve out and propegate widespread disease. I DO wish we still had an apex predator along the lines of wolf or mountain lion in PA to help control the deer population in a manner other than hunting. I feel it reflects badly on PA's past game "managment" style that we HAVE to act as the predator to the deer herd, because we killed off everything that once did that job.